Practicing being gentle with yourself helps awaken your genuine heart. This compassion, this clarity, this openness is like something we have forgotten. Lightening up in your practice, sitting there being gentle with yourself, you are rediscovering something.
All our efforts are temporary, they ride the current of natural events and disappear according to the dictates of the situation. It is best to realize the transitory nature of things and work with them. Understanding the world’s ephemeral nature can be the biggest advantage of all.
When people see things as beautiful, other things become ugly. When people see some things as good, other things become bad. Being and not being create each other. When things arise, let them come; when things disappear, let them go. When your work is done, forget it.
In difficult times if you are unable to exert influence because the fundamentals are all wrong and fruitful activity is rendered impossible, do not accept dazzling offers to take part in public activity. Hide your work and withdraw into seclusion and wait for the times to change.
Quote: It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawns on you.